Well, I set up my Slideshare account with no problems. Once there I thought I'd check out what's available related to the Society of California Archivsts (SCA) and SLAC (my institution).
SCA got a number of hits, but upon checking into them it appears that they are mostly hits that include the individual words. I tried the search trick of placing my phrase in quotation marks, but the results weren't much different so I'm not convinced it worked. It looked like there was one real hit, problem was, the More link at the end of the abbreviated description wouldn't work on IE8 and so I could not confirm and the slides themselves did not provide the necessary metadata of when and where the presentation was made. One observation was that the page layout was similar to YouTube (including the More link). Looks like some standards are emerging in presentation so new visitors don't have spend a lot of time wandering around a page.
UPDATE: Was able to get the More link to work from home on Firefox and yes indeed this presentation is from the SCA meeting last spring in Riverside. Bonus, it is about crowdsourcing (though not a surprise, of course someone talking about a 2.0 kind of thing would be the most likely to put his slides on Slideshare). Looks like there're some interesting projects to learn more about. Regret that I didn't go to that session as I expect more was said than appears in the slides.
I then turned to searching for SLAC stuff. Powerpoint is a huge part of the culture here so I was surprised how little I found without even trying to exclude the totally science presentations. But another bonus, several of the ones I did find were à propos to either 2.0 ...
... or archives or preservation:
- http://www.slideshare.net/maconrad/era-research-and-slac/
- http://www.slideshare.net/DigitalPreservationEurope/preservation-and-reuse-in-high-energy-physics-salvatore-mele-presentation
- http://www.slideshare.net/narodnitechnickaknihovna/scoap3-anne-gentilbeccot
Final observation: Slideshare may be useful for finding presentations, but a good presenter does not put everything in the slides. Sometimes they use notes in the Powerpoint, but look at my first example and you'll see that most of the notes are no notes. So ultimately, I believe you can only get the tip of the iceberg on these presentations. The upside is as David says on slide 6 this is a new way of getting information and it leads to picking up on some of it and surf/searching it further as I may do with some of Kevin's items.
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